Happy Birthday Princess!
Happy birthday Marlee Josephine! Marlee turns four today! Four! How is it even possible for her to be four years old?  Time is certainly getting away from me. I just brought her home from the hospital. Swaddled her in her bed. Stayed up all night with her a...

Vacation 2017
I let Nick talk me into taking a vacation. I had two weeks off this month (praise the Lord) and he wanted to spend one of them down in Florida. I'm not going to sugar coat it - I didn't want to go. Not even a little bit. Vacation with children is horrible. ...

Festival Junky
Winter was cold. Spring was rainy. But now it is SUMMER! How can you not like summer? Warm weather. Sunny sun. Playing outside. Eating popsicles. Mini pools. And festivals! I never considered myself a festival junky but after looking at my schedule and Face...

Happy Birthday Nicholas!

Happy Birthday Nicholas James!
Happy Birthday Nicholas! My (last) baby has turned two. We moved the high chair to storage and made the switch to 2% milk. We packed all your 18 month clothes in boxes and gave you another haircut which made you look like a little man. You no longer drool o...

Merry Christmas!

Christmas is for Kids
Ok so my last Christmas post was a little negative so I have come to redeem my Grinch attitude with some Christmas cheer.  Christmas is all about the kids. The faces. The screams and squeals of joy coming from the around the Christmas tree. The pure excitem...